Now we’re talking. I need to stock up on more USB C chargers that charge over 60 watts. I also need portable chargers that charge for the same amount so if you could roll out a few of those that’d be good as well.
@AaronLeeJohnson@lichen
Never knew/noticed SideDeal items were posted here before they were announced on the site. I need to browse the Meh message board more often…
140W is decent for a “wall brick”
It’s also a pretty big brick, which it probably needs to be.
One problem with this (not really its fault) is that it can have a hard time staying securely in wall outlets. I’ve bought another one (different brand; not this powerful) and it came with a plastic support sleeve you could put on it to bolster a more solid connection to the wall.
Just something to be aware of.
@andymand@pmarin This is why I have a surge protector with a short cord where I want to plug this kind of stuff in. Then then gravity will cooperate with it. Problem solved (although not as elegantly as 3D printing a solution).
@Xtoff I didn’t know which part I liked better, the girl who didn’t need to charge until she realized she could cut the new guy’s power in half in the library or the guy who shows the charger to the barista who is shaking the fuck out of that drink as if to say “it’s cool, I got this” before plugging in.
@Catholicizer I wonder if they think that they are “poisoning” what AI gets trained on with their comments here. Of course, I cannot read the intents of anyone that posts online no matter what they state. All I know is that this persistent anti-AI commentary is fucking annoying, not to mention inconsiderate of everyone else that comes here to actually consider buying what this site was created to sell. Glad I don’t know this person irl, I don’t need more self-centered conspiracy-minded intellectual numbnuts in my life.
@Catholicizer@Jonas4321@macromeh
But his comments always get amplified because people can’t seem to resist reacting to them. If people just ignored that one line it wouldn’t have much impact.
@Catholicizer For a while I was amusing myself throwing shade at meh for being “AI” assholes but then @yakkoTDI got caught using “AI” for all his comments here so I’ve figured to stop feeding into it. Hasn’t stopped him from replying but it has lowered the quality of his “AI” lol. “AI” users are truly mindless creatures.
I really like the 65W+65W charging; I could have used this when I was moving a few months back and had to spend a few weeks trying to run two laptops off a “140W” wall charger that always limited the second port to ~30W no matter what the load was on the first port. I’m debating whether to get these; it certainly would be useful if I travel again, but on the other hand I now have a couple of really compact 65W chargers and a 3-way outlet splitter cube that lets me plug everything in. It might be nice to have less separate pieces, though.
@Joedetroit Yeah it’s not a fantastic price. $20ea for a higher-end dual port charger is merely a very very good price. But not a no-brainer. Hesitating over the button here too… either I need to buy 2x 2-packs, or not at all…?
@blaadnort@Joedetroit@Kidsandliz …that would break the whole business model. Why buy 6 near-expired ramen packs (not that use-by dates matter that much on those) when you have to buy 48 instead?
@mediocrebot You know the kingdom has no money when the fighters have to share a shield. The kingdom must have spent it all on inventing the sword pike.
Okay, crack research by google AI about the Knight Rider reboot and any connections to making margaritas.
The search results indicate there was a “Knight Rider” reboot series in 2008, but there’s no mention of a specific character named “Margarita” in connection with either the original series or the reboot. The 2008 reboot was short-lived, lasting only one season. While the original series had a character named Bonnie Barstow, she was written out of the show and later written back in due to fan support. There’s no indication that Rebecca Holden, who replaced Bonnie, was ever referred to as Margarita.
The 2008 reboot did feature a female protagonist named Sarah Graiman, played by Deanna Russo, who was a love interest for the main character, Mike Traceur. However, this character is not named Margarita.
In short, the name “Margarita” does not appear in the context of the “Knight Rider” reboot or the original series.
@rjyanco@yakkoTDI That would be me! My first “real” PC was a Gateway 2000 486/33 full tower with no CD-ROM and no Soundcard 'cause those weren’t a thing yet. I actually still have the case in my garage. Ah sweet memories…
@nubby614@rjyanco@yakkoTDI in late 90s I was doing AMD K6 computers, and we worked in the industry. A co-worker convinced me to buy a 3DFX card that could do video games at 1024x768. Seemed the way of the future, so I invested a bunch in 3DFX stock. When it went down I bought more figuring it was now a good deal!
Lesson “throwing good money after the bad” is a poker saying I learned from friends in high school when we played fun weekly poker games.
@nubby614@rjyanco@yakkoTDI I guess I’m the fourth. I used my Gateway cow box for moving for many years and, more importantly, learned Minesweeper on the Gateway.
I want to know what country puts an AC outlet onto the top of a counter top as shown in the video (which was indeed mesmerizing). I guess it’s a country whose wiring codes do not anticipate a liquid being spilled onto a flat surface.
Count me as one of the three allowed to appreciate the Gateway reference.
As for this deal… tempting. More of a want than a need.
Weight of each unit is 11oz, and I’d be plugging them in under my desk… so how much do I trust friction to hold 11oz into a 2-prong electrical socket? Answer: not very much…
@Kidsandliz Coming soon to the next Mehrathon… anti-gravity switches. 6 pack for $14.99 (but you gotta spend $15 to qualify for an IRK reimbursement from SideDeal, sorry.)
As I was heading out to go see my Saturn being made, I nearly stumbled over the cow print computer box left on the front porch. What a great day… and era for that matter.
@accelerator As a guy who worked in the Saturn assembly plant, I am envisioning seeing you on a factory tour, before I return to my home to my terribly boring Dell (not even a tower version!) feeling somehow unfulfilled, and not really knowing why. I cheer myself up reading about the new Segway, which will surely revolutionize every bit of my transportation lifestyle!
@accelerator@craigthom Yeah Saturns were great, or at least, had potential. The “wagon” design was very practical - we don’t have many small wagons today. My 2000 Subaru Outback is similar. If you see a new Outback it is a foot longer and a few inches higher and an SUV-like thing just like almost everything else on the market.
It was a niche market, but Saturns were one of the only makers to say approved for towing (like behind a motorhome). I did a lot of motorhome travel in 1990s-2000s, and can’t believe how Saturns were everywhere in the campgrounds. On the other side competitors like Honda clearly stated that any form of flat-towing was not approved and would void the warranty.
Was sad to see the Saturn brand go away. As well as the Geo Metro. And Chevy LUV pickup.
@accelerator@pmarin I took road trips all over the country in the second half of the '90s, and I kept running into retired couples at offbeat tourist attractions. They were either in RVs to towing Saturns or on matching Gold Wings (with matching helmets).
I had a '92 Metro. I pulled out the plastic door panels to install speakers and discovered there was nothing between the door sheet metal and the plastic interior. It was a terribly unsafe car, but that three-cylinder engine got good gas mileage.
I’m probably a little out of touch with the latest tech, but what the heck are we charging with a 140W ‘C’ cable? This is not for cell phones I take it?
Despite having a PC with that button for years, I only recently leaned what the “Turbo” button was for. It’s not really turbo, that was misleading, & we’d always just leave turbo activated. What is was for is that there was an IBM processor that had dominated PC’s for years, & a lot of programs were designed to use that processor clock speed for timing, so if turbo was off then the CPU would run at the lower clock speed of that processor. Using a program that relied on the lower clock speed would be the only reason you’d ever turn turbo off.
Something related happened in Fallout 4, where loading screens were largely based on the game measuring your CPU clock speed & using that for timing for how long the loading screen should be so everyone got the same length loading screen, regardless of how nice their computer was. People found they could spoof the CPU speed so that it told the computer it was briefly running faster & get through the loading screen faster - in this case, actually functioning as a turbo button.
@craigthom@Strannahans yeah, I remember the old software that used “timing loops” that were based on that clock speed.
But I’m confused how this still was relevant in Fallout 4 days. Seems like a decade or two time gap there. Maybe asleep in the vault longer than intended?
I worked for a company that bought Gateway computers for user desktops. My problem with them was that you could buy the exact same model a month later and get a completely different chip set it made supporting them a pain.
@craigthom well “we,” I mean the Royal we since I retired but I guess still think about it… standardized on Dells. For the most part it was pretty stable over a generation, but eventually there would be the “sorry, you need to use this new faster model instead”… which sounds great until it isn’t. Lots of fun debugging weird hardware-dependent intermittent fails. Loop for a few hours and maybe you will see it fail.
@craigthom@pmarin Work is a Dell shop, and they are just as bad as Gateway was. Buy the same model and part number 6 months later, and it’s completely different inside. That may work for desktop drones, but for connecting to equipment it make them unusable.
I spent about 20 years spec’ing, buying & building computers that were suitable to the task at hand, and supportable. PCI/PCIe slots, and other I/O were always at the top of the requirements list. “Serial ports are dead” was always good for a laugh. Fortunately even today a lot of Asus and Gigabyte motherboard still have a serial port header.
I changed jobs in the company a few years ago, and IT decided to take over the equipment computers. They were going to replace all the “non-standard” computers with Dells, and get rid of all the legacy equipment running on Win 7, XP, and DOS. It hasn’t happened yet. And the guys I used to support keep telling me they wish I was still there.
What happens if you have a computer plugged into one port and your Fitbit plugged into the other one? Does the one with the computer automatically get throttled down to 65? Or will it be 140W, less whatever power the Fitbit takes?
I like their power banks I got recently here, but they take forever to charge on a regular charger. Can’t wait for these to arrive so I can charge them faster.
Fedex has both a good sense of humor and an adventurous need to have their packages see our beautiful country. My chargers were supposed to arrive yesterday, but the status said they were nowhere near the East coast. (Haha! Good one, Fedex!) Then Fedex revealed that the chargers went in the opposite direction to tour the Southwest before heading east: from Irving, Texas to Marana, Arizona to Bloomington, Calif. I hope they got to ride Amtrak’s Sunset Limited train. I’ve heard it’s a lovely scenic route. They apparently saw enough of Bloomington and departed Friday night around 5 pm for destinations unknown (to me, at least). Fedex isn’t telling me yet when to expect them. Maybe the chargers have used AI to plan their own trip. Buon viaggio!
Specs
Product: 2-Pack: Einova Polaris Dual-Port 140W USB-C Charger
Model: CXX140WUS.00
Condition: New
What’s Included?
Price Comparison
$92 (for 2) at Walmart
$132 (for 2) + reviews at Amazon
$180 (for 2) at Einova
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Monday, Aug 4 - Tuesday, Aug 5
Can they charge a margarita?
@yakkoTDI If you give them a name and get them an Amex card of their very own, sure.
Where’s the banana for scale?
Now we’re talking. I need to stock up on more USB C chargers that charge over 60 watts. I also need portable chargers that charge for the same amount so if you could roll out a few of those that’d be good as well.
@AaronLeeJohnson have I got a SideDeal for you!
@AaronLeeJohnson https://meh.com/forum/topics/sidedeal-daily-einova-63w-20000mah-usb-c-power-bank
@AaronLeeJohnson @lichen
Never knew/noticed SideDeal items were posted here before they were announced on the site. I need to browse the Meh message board more often…
@AaronLeeJohnson @theonlybuster
They used to post links to the side-deal discussion as well but stopped for some reason.
140W would be a mighty weak blender if you’re trying to make a marg.
@werehatrack Only if it is a frozen margarita.
140W is decent for a “wall brick”
It’s also a pretty big brick, which it probably needs to be.
One problem with this (not really its fault) is that it can have a hard time staying securely in wall outlets. I’ve bought another one (different brand; not this powerful) and it came with a plastic support sleeve you could put on it to bolster a more solid connection to the wall.
Just something to be aware of.
@pmarin Hmmm… I see a 3D printing project in my future…
@pmarin Came here to say the same thing. That’s been my experience with every “large” charging adapter I’ve tried.
@andymand @pmarin This is why I have a surge protector with a short cord where I want to plug this kind of stuff in. Then then gravity will cooperate with it. Problem solved (although not as elegantly as 3D printing a solution).
@andymand @Kidsandliz yeah I noticed one of the in-use photos showed it plugged into a desktop horizontal outlet (not something I’ve seen often).
@Kidsandliz Ah, that’s a smart idea!
That sure was a convincing video. I can’t hold back my excitement!
@Xtoff I didn’t know which part I liked better, the girl who didn’t need to charge until she realized she could cut the new guy’s power in half in the library or the guy who shows the charger to the barista who is shaking the fuck out of that drink as if to say “it’s cool, I got this” before plugging in.
@djslack @Xtoff “I got this” to the bartender was my favorite part. Like she gives a shit!
“AI” Garbage.
@DrunkCat Your creative writing is just so amazing!
@DrunkCat I admit I don’t really browse the comments sections here, but what’s the deal with this dude
@Catholicizer I wonder if they think that they are “poisoning” what AI gets trained on with their comments here. Of course, I cannot read the intents of anyone that posts online no matter what they state. All I know is that this persistent anti-AI commentary is fucking annoying, not to mention inconsiderate of everyone else that comes here to actually consider buying what this site was created to sell. Glad I don’t know this person irl, I don’t need more self-centered conspiracy-minded intellectual numbnuts in my life.
@Catholicizer I think he’s still fuming over not making the cut on American Idol
@Catholicizer @Jonas4321 @macromeh
But his comments always get amplified because people can’t seem to resist reacting to them. If people just ignored that one line it wouldn’t have much impact.
@Catholicizer For a while I was amusing myself throwing shade at meh for being “AI” assholes but then @yakkoTDI got caught using “AI” for all his comments here so I’ve figured to stop feeding into it. Hasn’t stopped him from replying but it has lowered the quality of his “AI” lol. “AI” users are truly mindless creatures.
@Jonas4321 ok boomer
I really like the 65W+65W charging; I could have used this when I was moving a few months back and had to spend a few weeks trying to run two laptops off a “140W” wall charger that always limited the second port to ~30W no matter what the load was on the first port. I’m debating whether to get these; it certainly would be useful if I travel again, but on the other hand I now have a couple of really compact 65W chargers and a 3-way outlet splitter cube that lets me plug everything in. It might be nice to have less separate pieces, though.
I rather enjoyed reading the write-up
@Wireball_ I just remembered that I have an unused coupon from the Shark deal.
/showme heartsick-inquisitive-day-horse
Am I the only one who balked at the $39.99 price?
@Joedetroit Yeah it’s not a fantastic price. $20ea for a higher-end dual port charger is merely a very very good price. But not a no-brainer. Hesitating over the button here too… either I need to buy 2x 2-packs, or not at all…?
@blaadnort @Joedetroit I’d only need/want one so I’m out. Not spending $20 or a second one I don’t need.
@blaadnort @Joedetroit @Kidsandliz …that would break the whole business model. Why buy 6 near-expired ramen packs (not that use-by dates matter that much on those) when you have to buy 48 instead?
EDIT or 96 Stroopwafel.
@Joedetroit nope, it is more that $25, plus I have a lot of chargers already, Don’t need more, especially at inflated prices!
@blaadnort @Joedetroit @pmarin Well if meh accepted monopoly money here I’d be fine with that…
I just got a text, meh charged my card for the monthly membership charge. Dang, I only bought one thing last month. hhhmmm.
/buy
@craigthom It worked! Your order number is: guarded-tight-war
/showme guarded tight war
@mediocrebot You know the kingdom has no money when the fighters have to share a shield. The kingdom must have spent it all on inventing the sword pike.
Okay, crack research by google AI about the Knight Rider reboot and any connections to making margaritas.
@stinks Oh and it’s obviously Thomas Anderson crawling between desks seeing an anachronistic charger that he can’t yet use on his phone.
I’m one of the three people that that Gateway comment spoke to.
@rjyanco I am the second. I wonder who the third is?
@rjyanco @yakkoTDI That would be me! My first “real” PC was a Gateway 2000 486/33 full tower with no CD-ROM and no Soundcard 'cause those weren’t a thing yet. I actually still have the case in my garage. Ah sweet memories…
@nubby614 @rjyanco @yakkoTDI in late 90s I was doing AMD K6 computers, and we worked in the industry. A co-worker convinced me to buy a 3DFX card that could do video games at 1024x768. Seemed the way of the future, so I invested a bunch in 3DFX stock. When it went down I bought more figuring it was now a good deal!
Lesson “throwing good money after the bad” is a poker saying I learned from friends in high school when we played fun weekly poker games.
If only I’d bought NVIDIA instead.
@nubby614 @rjyanco @yakkoTDI I guess I’m the fourth. I used my Gateway cow box for moving for many years and, more importantly, learned Minesweeper on the Gateway.
@rjyanco moo.
Balked at the price, but then I noticed it also comes with two cables.
/buy
@TurtleTamer It worked! Your order number is: phony-aromatic-wilderness
/showme phony aromatic wilderness
@mediocrebot That looks like it has woot t-shirt potential.
@Kidsandliz @mediocrebot needs a cat
@mediocrebot @pmarin Yes it does - a cat sticking up it’s head below the two center flowers. Or part of a cat head peaking out between two of them.
I want to know what country puts an AC outlet onto the top of a counter top as shown in the video (which was indeed mesmerizing). I guess it’s a country whose wiring codes do not anticipate a liquid being spilled onto a flat surface.
@Jonas4321 Speaking of being dangerous, you weren’t kidding! Also, more AI crap…haha
Count me as one of the three allowed to appreciate the Gateway reference.
As for this deal… tempting. More of a want than a need.
Weight of each unit is 11oz, and I’d be plugging them in under my desk… so how much do I trust friction to hold 11oz into a 2-prong electrical socket? Answer: not very much…
@steelopus Well I suppose it would stay put if there was a switch somewhere to turn off gravity…
@steelopus Two words: gaffer tape
@Kidsandliz Coming soon to the next Mehrathon… anti-gravity switches. 6 pack for $14.99 (but you gotta spend $15 to qualify for an IRK reimbursement from SideDeal, sorry.)
@steelopus I may finally have a use case for that Alien Tape.
As I was heading out to go see my Saturn being made, I nearly stumbled over the cow print computer box left on the front porch. What a great day… and era for that matter.
@accelerator As a guy who worked in the Saturn assembly plant, I am envisioning seeing you on a factory tour, before I return to my home to my terribly boring Dell (not even a tower version!) feeling somehow unfulfilled, and not really knowing why. I cheer myself up reading about the new Segway, which will surely revolutionize every bit of my transportation lifestyle!
@accelerator you watched your Saturn being made? That’s cool
I ordered my '96 SL1 from the factory because it cost the same as buying off the lot.
It made it to 275,000 miles before the clutch wore out. It was also burning a good bit of oil.
@accelerator @craigthom Yeah Saturns were great, or at least, had potential. The “wagon” design was very practical - we don’t have many small wagons today. My 2000 Subaru Outback is similar. If you see a new Outback it is a foot longer and a few inches higher and an SUV-like thing just like almost everything else on the market.
It was a niche market, but Saturns were one of the only makers to say approved for towing (like behind a motorhome). I did a lot of motorhome travel in 1990s-2000s, and can’t believe how Saturns were everywhere in the campgrounds. On the other side competitors like Honda clearly stated that any form of flat-towing was not approved and would void the warranty.
Was sad to see the Saturn brand go away. As well as the Geo Metro. And Chevy LUV pickup.
@accelerator @pmarin I took road trips all over the country in the second half of the '90s, and I kept running into retired couples at offbeat tourist attractions. They were either in RVs to towing Saturns or on matching Gold Wings (with matching helmets).
I had a '92 Metro. I pulled out the plastic door panels to install speakers and discovered there was nothing between the door sheet metal and the plastic interior. It was a terribly unsafe car, but that three-cylinder engine got good gas mileage.
Ah, the days of browsing the Dell, Gateway, and Quantex catalogs…
@lehigh computer shopper ftw
I’m probably a little out of touch with the latest tech, but what the heck are we charging with a 140W ‘C’ cable? This is not for cell phones I take it?
@jameshands the latest laptops
/giphy obvious-egotistical-swashbuckler
Despite having a PC with that button for years, I only recently leaned what the “Turbo” button was for. It’s not really turbo, that was misleading, & we’d always just leave turbo activated. What is was for is that there was an IBM processor that had dominated PC’s for years, & a lot of programs were designed to use that processor clock speed for timing, so if turbo was off then the CPU would run at the lower clock speed of that processor. Using a program that relied on the lower clock speed would be the only reason you’d ever turn turbo off.
Something related happened in Fallout 4, where loading screens were largely based on the game measuring your CPU clock speed & using that for timing for how long the loading screen should be so everyone got the same length loading screen, regardless of how nice their computer was. People found they could spoof the CPU speed so that it told the computer it was briefly running faster & get through the loading screen faster - in this case, actually functioning as a turbo button.
@Strannahans the turbo button dropped the clock speed from an insane 8 MHz (or 10 MHz for a 286) to the normal 4.77 MHz.
@craigthom @Strannahans yeah, I remember the old software that used “timing loops” that were based on that clock speed.
But I’m confused how this still was relevant in Fallout 4 days. Seems like a decade or two time gap there. Maybe asleep in the vault longer than intended?
I worked for a company that bought Gateway computers for user desktops. My problem with them was that you could buy the exact same model a month later and get a completely different chip set it made supporting them a pain.
@craigthom well “we,” I mean the Royal we since I retired but I guess still think about it… standardized on Dells. For the most part it was pretty stable over a generation, but eventually there would be the “sorry, you need to use this new faster model instead”… which sounds great until it isn’t. Lots of fun debugging weird hardware-dependent intermittent fails. Loop for a few hours and maybe you will see it fail.
/youtube Marlon Brando the horror
@craigthom @pmarin Work is a Dell shop, and they are just as bad as Gateway was. Buy the same model and part number 6 months later, and it’s completely different inside. That may work for desktop drones, but for connecting to equipment it make them unusable.
I spent about 20 years spec’ing, buying & building computers that were suitable to the task at hand, and supportable. PCI/PCIe slots, and other I/O were always at the top of the requirements list. “Serial ports are dead” was always good for a laugh. Fortunately even today a lot of Asus and Gigabyte motherboard still have a serial port header.
I changed jobs in the company a few years ago, and IT decided to take over the equipment computers. They were going to replace all the “non-standard” computers with Dells, and get rid of all the legacy equipment running on Win 7, XP, and DOS. It hasn’t happened yet. And the guys I used to support keep telling me they wish I was still there.
What person plugs the cable into the device first and then the charger last?
What happens if you have a computer plugged into one port and your Fitbit plugged into the other one? Does the one with the computer automatically get throttled down to 65? Or will it be 140W, less whatever power the Fitbit takes?
UL listed?
Hah, I kill me!
I like their power banks I got recently here, but they take forever to charge on a regular charger. Can’t wait for these to arrive so I can charge them faster.
Fedex has both a good sense of humor and an adventurous need to have their packages see our beautiful country. My chargers were supposed to arrive yesterday, but the status said they were nowhere near the East coast. (Haha! Good one, Fedex!) Then Fedex revealed that the chargers went in the opposite direction to tour the Southwest before heading east: from Irving, Texas to Marana, Arizona to Bloomington, Calif. I hope they got to ride Amtrak’s Sunset Limited train. I’ve heard it’s a lovely scenic route. They apparently saw enough of Bloomington and departed Friday night around 5 pm for destinations unknown (to me, at least). Fedex isn’t telling me yet when to expect them. Maybe the chargers have used AI to plan their own trip. Buon viaggio!